And what we have at the moment is both sides! It is diverse, but also we have this second class which is an affordable backbone that gets drivers, teams, engineers, etc… a foothold in endurance racing.
You have to understand the pragmatism that is needed to have this stability and volume if entries.
On top of that I can certainly see talent rising to the top.
Yes, wouldn’t it be great for massive diversity. We have seen what can happen here. It ends up hardly any more diverse because there is only six cars!
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Originally Posted by helgi
I really would like to be an optimist but with no Zytek-Gibson, HPD, Dome and no possibility for other manufacturers and teams to develop their own chassis - it's just have less and less sense to prefer LMP2 over different formulae. No engineering vs better speed. And it looks like many teams are going to leave in favour of GT3. So do young talented pilots. Can't see any advantages for LMP2.
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Imagine if they hadn’t made the changes they did to LMP2 - how many cars could we have seen racing?
Keeping it affordable has just meant several teams have raced in it. Oddly some using it as practice and development for the top class.